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Newspaper
Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 22, 1900
Page
8
A Ohio Farmer piece explains how farmers build effective clod crushers using wooden planks and boards. It contrasts the "intellectual" approach with a weighty, efficient drag design, detailing four methods and a folding slab float for uneven ground, with practical assembly notes and diagram references.
Rural World urges seasonal grazing and pure water to protect sheep, noting sound fences and shaded pastures. G W Buffum shares poultry care tips, while Hoff's Storkton Republican champions sheep to improve soil and farm income, citing wool production as a beneficial, undervalued farm product.
The fashion outlook favors restraint with no radical changes. Hats shift to belled crowns and narrow brims, soft hats with wide brims, and plain ribbon bands. Shoes keep flat lasted soles with plain tips and hair ornament lines. Gloves favor bone buttons and white or black color schemes reappear. Quiet colors in shirts and fabrics replace loud tones, and striped madras shirtings recur in blues and reds.
A compact miscellany of aphorisms and quotes on life faith and patience. Soubert Tertullian and Virgil are cited, noting religion as mindset not opinion and patience as divine foster-daughter while considering affliction and pity as a response.
A collage of endorsements and ad blurbs features G Gordon of Independence and W Bacot Co of Clarksdale praising Yucatan Chill Tonic improved for chills and fever. Heaton Bros of Victoria Texas claim success, while others tout Guove’s Tasteless Cut for chills, and Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets promise cure in one day.
A mix of travel rate ads and miscellaneous quotes and testimonials. notes on low rate round trips via Missouri Pacific and Iron Mountain routes with specific sale dates in 1900. references to H C Townsend, and various promotional lines from newspapers and periodicals, including jokes and medical product pitches.
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